Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-07

tattered banner of the eanti-removalists-an oil
dirty, ragged map of Belmont county, upoI
which jug Run was marked more conspicu
ously than the Ohio river, and Woods RuI
looked like an inlsnd sea.
DR.. West was named as executor of the viii
of his father -in-law, Capt. Joseph KirkWood
who died in 1856. He resigned the trust, il
order to secure the assistance of his brother
ln-lsw, Hon. WIN. kennon, Jr., in settling W
the large estate. He and Kennon were ap-
pointed and qualified as administrators with
the will annexed, and continued to execute the
trust jointly until Judge Kennoa's death, in
1887 after which DR.. West finished the work
alOne-which was not completed until 1884.
In the practice of his profession, DR.. West
was exceptionally successful. The extent OF
his practice NAV be inferred from the follow
ing extract from the 4" Transactions of the Bel
mont Medical Society" for 1854, page III
The report of which it is part was made under
d rule of the society requiring such statistics
from each Of its members
Births occurring in the practice of Henry
West, N. D., st. Clairsyille, O., for the wear
ending Jan. l, 1855. Males 2l females 23.-
Total A."
He was several times President of the Bel
mont Medical Society, and was one of its lead
ing members during its whole existence, from
| ls41 until the breaking out of the war. He
was a regular contributor to the Medical Jour
nal, published at Bridgeport by DR.. J. @. AZ
heck. He was a delegate to the American
Medical Association at its meeting at Cincin-
natl in 1850, and again at Washington in 1870.
He was in full membership until his death.
DR.. West was man of positive character.
Good-natured, always with CHEEKY smile and
merry joke for every friend-and he had hosts
of them he was nevertheless man of stern,
unbending will, and he carried an unyielding
determination into everything he undertook
Strong in his friendships, he wOs equally
strong in his dislikes; and the man or woman
who once forfeited his confidence or respect
would be in no danger of mistaking his senti-
ments toward them. Plain and honest him.
self, he admired plainness and honesty in
others. He was public spirited in the highest
degree. No public matter, whether general or
local, passed unnoticed by him. He took sides
upon all questions affecting the body polite
and there was no difficulty in calculating in ad
vance just where to find him upon any public
matter. On all party questions he was Re- |
publican, because he believed thoroughly in
the principles of that party and on all local
issues, of whatever name or nature, be was on
the side OF honor and justice and good con-
science and the public welfare.
He was man, take him all in all, we shall
not see his like again"
THE FUNERAL-LARGE ATTENDANCE.
The funeral occurred at l O'Clock Saturday.
Notwithstanding the mercury was climbing
high up in the nineties, an unusually large
number of townspeople, and many relatives
and acquaintances from distance, assembled
at the homestead to pay the last tribute of re-
spect and affection to the dead. Among those
from abroad were Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Askew,
Of Kansas City, Mo-, Capt. E. A. Parrish and
DR.. F. W. McAuley, OF Uhrichsville, formerly
Of the Ninety-eighth Infantry, of which the
Doctor was Surgeon, and many physicians of
neighbOring towns.
Rev. W. II. Haskell, of the N. E. church,
the services, which we're interspersed
with appropriate hymns. Mr.. Haskell paid an
eloquent and fitting tribute to the memory of
he dead. Then the great crowd of people filed
slowly past the open coffin and took their last
view of the remains, when it was closed, upon
The breast laid wreath of immortelles, and
borne tenderly to its last resting place.